mangostán

/[mãŋgosˈt̪ãn]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

mangostán is aSpanishnoun. It means: Arbusto de las Molucas, de la familia de las Gutíferas, con hojas opuestas, agudas, coriáceas y lustrosas, flores terminales, solitarias, con cuatro pétalos rojos, y fruto carnoso, comestible y muy... Pronounced [mãŋgosˈt̪ãn].

Key facts for mangostán
PropertyValue
Headwordmangostán
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[mãŋgosˈt̪ãn]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mangostán is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for mangostán is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mãŋgosˈt̪ãn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Arbusto de las Molucas, de la familia de las Gutíferas, con hojas opuestas, agudas, coriáceas y lustrosas, flores terminales, solitarias, con cuatro pétalos rojos, y fruto carnoso, comestible y muy...".

No misspelling variants are generated for mangostán in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is mangostán, spelled M-A-N-G-O-S-T-Á-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Arbusto de las Molucas, de la familia de las Gutíferas, con hojas opuestas, agudas, coriáceas y lustrosas, flores terminales, solitarias, con cuatro pétalos rojos, y fruto carnoso, comestible y muy estimado.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mangostán"?
"mangostán" is spelled M-A-N-G-O-S-T-Á-N. The IPA pronunciation is [mãŋgosˈt̪ãn].
What does "mangostán" mean?
As a noun, "mangostán" means: Arbusto de las Molucas, de la familia de las Gutíferas, con hojas opuestas, agudas, coriáceas y lustrosas, flores terminales, solitarias, con cuatro pétalos rojos, y fruto carnoso, comestible y muy...
How do you pronounce "mangostán"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mangostán" is [mãŋgosˈt̪ãn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.